The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25

President. This season the White House plans
bring something into each OF the six weeks.
There arc the three dinners. the first,
by long-established custom, to the Cabinet:
the second to the diplomatic corps, and the
third to the Supreme Court Justices. The din
ncrs are to be on alternate Thursday evenings
with the three Official receptions. The public
reception will bring up the last thing on Tues
day evening before Ash Wednesday. Mrs.
Cleveland will probably hold four Saturday af-
ternoons In the dinner weeks. By this arrange
ment the Misunderstanding ordeal comes but once
a week, after New Years week. This seems to
DO the outlook at present. though changes are
always possible and often probable. The Holt
days are likely to pass quietly at tho White
House. There nre no guests at present, and
out Of hours for tho admission OF the public 10
the East Room. no private house could be
stiller. A few visitors are received in the
evening, mostly strangers, whom the Presi-
dents wife Is sure to see by appointment. or
by sending in cards. When u visitor said.
half alphabetically, one evening: You know,
to meet the President and the Presidents wife
is q part Of ones visit to the capital" Mrs.
Cleveland answered with responsive frankness:
Yes, l know it is. l am sure l should think
so. too"
Mrs. Folsom may remain in Washington the
JlDSl VI IL WlutcT VIII IL icitttlNoS Nv 10
iting. Oak View is not to see n repetition of
the very pleasant morning receptions given
there by her last season. The house is closed
to visitors and in charge of the servants. 1t
looks very much as II the President and his
wife would eat their Christmas turkey in the
White House. Fashion is weakening. and
summer country houses are not half so COM
Portable as houses in town. All of the Cabinet
families are to pass the holidays hero, with the
exception OF Mrs. Lamar, who has gone TO
Georgia for the festive Senson. The three
Whitney children are home from school to spend
the holidays with the baby" and their parents.
bssIiby ns Whitney Is %gsh n like ANY os Isd
York boys. Willie Vanderbilt and Charley Bar
and Payne Whitney, II is given out that dur;
ing the season Mrs. Whitney Will have her card
evening has been selected for the White House
entertainments
The wife OF the Postmaster-Genernl is not in
we'll since her return with her husband. when
the President and his wife came back from the
West. Other Cabinet houses have been opened
informally on Wednesday, according to the
fashion before the season. but Mrt. Villas has
NOV ,r been u aHIe to Ior sec S@c Iisiio rS, Mis- VI eo nIi.s G has
hardly be expected to relieve her mother ofthe
d tbs santr asy H@9nseEs w sis5ef' taxa NSii nno Hij hsrse on
tanning With a vim and spirit ,ha5 would IL be re-
cal Western girl. She has health that is per-
f rssist nnd a oT Hez IEatbsI' air mo absnt s hsr that ar i
brother would be rated bruncttes. but Mollie
is u fair-haired blonde. with the richest pink
in her cheeks and blue eyes that are without
talking: She is about ia. and Is the President
Of the Childrcn's Christmas Club; Her admin
She is a positive ii iii and Of Course While q posi-:
s Me- Says aP nc SssisssJ iris sas,I; SP IS d f 5S e
come out while her father is in the Cabinet.
She thinks Cabinets ought 10 be elected for six
years. Shed be Is, and then she'd surely come
Mollie Villas will probably come, out at IS.
H Heery Vi hss t tha enl Is SON On ne 4 sb SaG' ~ FL ae q n"t 4
pupil here in the public schools, and is regarded
among his school follows as tho best hammered
EloDements in Washington seem to he cpl
demlc. occurring so frequently that they no
the mystery is. to know the reason why there
should be an elopement at all, when there is no
opposition or obstacle to g straiGhtlorward
granddaughter began 1t, they say. Miss Ban
croft. had no obstacle in her path, not IA straw
sole relative to- whom sic was accointahIe. 1t
has been said that the young man, Mir. Carroll.
%ns eaI 50 h ,sss; a If B EIs nss S were ,"c th %f S] pssrs, sr
70 get closer to the truth, disparity OF years.
Twenty-three and anywhere between, twenty
"didnt begin to look her real age. you know"
as q disaEpoin,Gd bridesmaid aiterward re-
abroad, to France direct, where the mar whom
Miss bancroft was TO have married In january
has his home. at least she cannot be charged
No sooner is Miss Bancroft Disposed Of than
a second sensation, %stnrtles %scciety:. Miss Mel
Known in New York than in Watehiag;on, Snd
therefore the metropolis Is more disturbed than
the national hnl. cFniIai. 1t WIS Of eour IIGa li!iie
bourne should have run off win Mr.. Wall"
when tho face Of the circr instances show that
she met with no opposition. IL Is not quito
certain that rs much can bo said for Sir. Wall.
lndssd wp It Is on sl q. w. sTon ,Ids Of P4 tis INT Eau tee go I.
to elope with Mr.. Wall. This now fashion. sim
ply royerses the responsibility by putting IL on
consequences are about the salne--in the rec
onciliatiop. forgiveness, and parental blessing
The third pair, young, Mr.. Buckley, lust
gave a touch Of novelty 70 ,liGir elG!Iement by
with each Other. or bSth together. or one ms
much as tho other. There was no disparity Of
wished her to marry Comptroller 1renholm's
son next Februar,y. was not, it seems, of her
T wssains IN one d In ,Rs T Sasd ins nISso e ths n s1s
houses, in Washington. and the prospective
h hraom in s, ~philn1ts kip Ni alreH HiiI nronS WSd By y tine hs
heiress, and a personally attractive young Wo-
%an, too, did not wSns to marry c1 nnnrlr br
irennclmS son. one wanted 10 ihlTIy w
Buckleyis son, a bank clerk. and a young man
whom, she has known all her life. It was eyi-
marry Miss Hilygri They had been play.
mates when children and were pretty
well acquainted. Mr.. .Nogeuirss. a son
Of the Portuguese Minister vas with
Of age. and there was no Obstacle, SO they We're
married In Baltimore. The Monumental City
e getting to be Wasl,ington's Gretna Green.
Mr., Buckley went back 70 his desk in the bank
and Mrs. Buckley went home 10 her parents,
until such time as forgiveness should make 1t
possible for the groom to claim the bride. But
Mr. HiiIyer' the brides father, announces that
his dGugiIer has been unGuly influenced and
that tho marriage ceremony shall be- annullcl;
The groom says il viii rot, and that he Will
soon claim his vile, and with her fathers con.
seat, to-. There are Z good nsnl Interested
senator has betrayed his sympathy
Tor tho young husband and wife by declaring
no hopes "thry will beat the old man yot." The
cool serenity Of young Buckley, smiling and
quiet behind his bank counter. has siyen the
general impression that the pair know what
they are about and will most assuredly beat
tho old man yet"
The following very English copyersation was
heard in q fashionable West End boarding
house the other day. 1t was the conversation